Routine physical therapy and proprioceptive training is performed

Routine physical therapy

Proprioceptive training included exercises on different floor textures composed of 10 stations of exercises with the objective of stimulating the sole of the foot where participants had to coordinate gait by stepping with alternate feet on markers placed on the ground and the progression was manipulated through modifications of speed and direction.

Sequence of materials was 10 cm-thick foam, wood box with beans, two-cm thick mat with a density lower than the foam, wood box with cotton, two-cm thick mat volunteers sat on a bench and trained feet flexors by grasping with the toes a towel put on the floor, Two proprioception balls was used with an eight cm diameter with external projections resting on the floor a box with grains and sandpaper. After that joint Positional Sense Exercises were performed.

It is a 14-item list with each item consisting of a five-point ordinal scale ranging from 0 to 4.0 denotes inability to complete the item, and 4 the ability to accomplish the task independently (total score range, 0-56; higher = better performance). Scores of less than 45 out of 56 are accepted as indicative of balance disorders in the elderly.

The WHOQOL is a quality of life assessment developed by the WHOQOL Group with fifteen international field centers, simultaneously, in an attempt to develop a quality of life assessment that would be applicable cross-culturally.It contains a total of 26 questions. To provide a broad and comprehensive assessment, one item from each of 24 facets contained in the WHOQOL-100 has been included.